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Dogs (201-250)

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If you caress a dog, he will lick your mouth. — Indian (Tamil)
If you play with a dog, do not complain when it tears your clothes. — African (Annang)
If you have stepped over the dog, step over its tail too. — Estonian
If the dog is patted on the head, it wags its tail. — Filipino
In a wealthy man's house there is no lean dog. — Japanese
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In every country dogs bite. — English
Into the mouth of a bad dog, often falls a good bone. — English
It is difficult to teach an old dog to sit down. — Icelandic
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. — Scottish
It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch. — French
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It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman. — Italian
It is a hard winter when dogs eat dogs. — English
It is a poor dog that is not worth whistling for. — English
Keep hold of the bone a nd the dog will follow you. — Irish
Let dogs sleep, otherwise if anything done against them is a problem. — Kenyan
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Let people talk and dogs bark. — German
Let every dog carry his own tail. — English
Let sleeping dogs lie. — English
Little dogs start the hare but great ones catch it. — English
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel. — English
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A dog doesn’t care which side of a bone he’s handed. — Swedish
Money makes dogs dance. — French
Mad dogs get their coats torn. — Danish
Many make themselves a dog for the sake of survival. — Turkish
Money speaks; dogs bark. — Hungarian
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Never was a cat or dog drowned that could see the shore. — English
No flock without dog and shepherd. — Turkish
Not every time a dog barks should a bone be thrown to it. — Lebanese
Not every dog that barks, bites . — Russian
Not everyone the dogs bark at is a thief. — Yiddish
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One dog barks an inanity, ten thousand dogs assert its truth. — Japanese
One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him. — French
One tells a dog there's a feast at your home, it says let me see it on the ground. — African (Hausa)
One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at the sound. — Chinese
Put not your hand in a mad dog's mouth. — American
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He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas. — English
Strike a dog with a bone and he'll not growl. — Irish
The wolf enters a flock that is without a dog. — Turkish
The wife wails and the dog whimpers and the child whines and poverty howls. — Yiddish
The worst dog that is will wag his tail. — English
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The smith’s dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer and wakes at the grinding of teeth. — Spanish
The dog does not worry when the chicken runs over to the bones. — Ghanaian
The paw prints of a leopard are not trodden in by a dog. — Ugandan
The dog never forgets its owner. — Ugandan
The owner of the dog does not obey his dog. — Ugandan
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The silent dog is the first to bite. — German
The hyena is the cure for the biting dog. — African (Hausa)
The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer. — Danish
The dog that knows not how to bark brings the wolf to the sheep. — Turkish
The dog that hates to obey his owner will sleep without his supper. — Jamaican
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